Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • Watching Brain Surgery

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    For the Designing for Service class this semester, we are exploring design solutions for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Neurosurgery Clinic, specifically for Dr. Amin Kassam, who is acclaimed for his minimally invasive endoscopic surgery—a procedure that allows him to remove brain tumors by going in through the patient’s nose. While our efforts are…

  • Classes for Final Semester

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    Course registration for the spring semester began today. I was a bit sad the past few days realizing that the classes I chose were to be the last of grad school. There are still many courses that I would like to take. But alas… In addition to my thesis project and thesis paper, I am…

  • Playing with RFID

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    For my final Making Furniture Interactive project, I planned to create an ambient door with RFID. But after a week, my enthusiasm for the project began to wane. Because it was a concept for my service class, it felt too practical, and didn’t make me excited to work on it. Also, I had desires to…

  • Maggie Breslin Visits Designing for Service

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    This week Maggie Breslin, a former Carnegie Mellon design grad, visited our Designing for Service class to hear about our University of Pittsburgh Medical Center projects and give a presentation on her service design work for the Sparc Innovation Program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She described her role as both understanding and…

  • Sensor Detector and Ambient Door

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    Kipum Lee and I are proposing to create a sensor detector and ambient door location indicator for our Making Furniture Interactive (MFI) class. Kip and I are also working together on a team in another class to bring service design solutions to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Neurosurgery Clinic. Our work on that…

  • Thesis Paper Abstract v2.0

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    With the majority of my readings behind me—How Designers Think, The Reflective Practitioner, Thoughtful Interaction Design—I took a stab at rewriting my thesis paper abstract. I wrote the original abstract a few weeks ago, but it was still too abstract for…um…an abstract, so I didn’t share it. The result is a shift, I believe, from…

  • Midway Through Design Computing

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    We’ve hit the midway point in the semester for Design Computing. And I must confess that my first teaching experience had a bit of a rough start. There were a bunch of factors that affected this—planning Emergence, not following last year’s model, Flash C3 being very different from the previous version—but to some extent inexperience…

  • Design Ability: Skill and Knowledge

    Design Ability: Skill and Knowledge

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    When examining the design process, you cannot leave out the designer herself. As I have been exploring different readings and thoughts about the process, several questions have come to mind: What is good design? What is a good designer? How does one become a good designer? Thoughtful Interaction Design by Jonas Lowgren and Erik Stolterman…

  • How Designers Think

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    Yes! Yes! Yes! No, this post is not about sex. It’s about Bryan Lawson’s How Designer Think, which is an orgasm of design process and thinking. On nearly every page I found an idea I could relate to as a designer and often thought the book should be required reading for those entering design. If…